Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130725:18:32:00
Obviously we're waiting to get more details here, but the initial report is that the conductor was in a 49-mile-per-hour area and he may have been going at least 118. one would think that there would be safety measures in place that would prevent someone from being able to approach that type of speed, especially on a curve. >> no, well, there's not what is known as automatic train control here. oddly enough, on a stretch of tracks before that where they were going about 115 miles an hour, there was that form of control but they had just come off from that system on to a cruder system where the...
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